If 380,000 federal workers are dropped from payrolls, employment would fall for first time since 2010

The partial government shutdown could cause the longest stretch of continuous job growth recorded in the U.S. to come to an end this month.

U.S. employers, including private businesses and government agencies, have added jobs every month since October 2010, a streak of 99 months. That is the longest run on record dating back to 1939 and would come to an end, if hundreds of thousands of government workers furloughed by the partial shutdown are dropped from federal payrolls.

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